Collapsible hood for motor vehicles



R. COLOMBINO COLLAPSIBLE HOOD FOR MOTOR VEHICLES Filed Au 1, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 R. COLOMBINO COLLAPSIBLE HOOD FOR MOTOR VEHICLES Filed'Aug. '7, 1922 2 Sheets- Sheet 2 Patented Dec. 16, 1924. 1,519,440

warren STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RINO COLOMBINO, OF TUBIN, ITALY.

COLLAPSIBLE HOOD FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

Application filed August 7, 1922. Serial No. 580,179.

To all whom it may concern: than, that in known types of hood, it allows Be it known that I, Rnvo CoLoMmNo, a unobstructed side views to persons seated in subject of the King of Italy, resident of 26 the rear seats when the hood is elevated.

Via Pastrengo, Turin, in the Kingdom of One form of hood in accordance with the Italy, have invented certain new and useful invention is illustrated by way of example Improvements in (.ollapsible Hoods for on the accompanying drawings whereon:-

Motor Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the Fig. 1 is a partial elevation of a motor following to be a full, clear, and exact devehicle with the hood raised.

scription of the invention, such as will on Fig. 2 is a similar view with the hood col- 10 able others skilled in the art to which it lapsed. appert-ams to make and use the same, refer- Fig. 3 1s asection on the line A-B of once being had to the accompanying draw- Fig. 2. ings, and to letters or figures of reference Referring to the drawings: marked thereon, which form a part of this 1 indicates the body of the vehicle to 15 specification. which is pivoted, at 2, in recesses 11 formed The ordinary foldable or collapsible hood in the side walls of the vehicle (see Fig. 3)

for motor vehicles is capable of easy and the principal hoop 3 of the head frame. On rapid manipulation but spoils the simple the principal hoop are pivoted a secondary and continuous lines of the vehicle body. It hoop l, whose arch is greater than that of 20 has been proposed to provide a hood which the hoop 3 in order that it may be lowered can be gathered, in the folded condition, over and encircle the latter without increascompletely into space provided in the veing the thickness vertically and a tertiary hicle body, thus leaving the profile oi the hoop 5 to which are pivoted cross links 6, 7, body entirely free and unobstructed. carrying hoops 8, 9, connected by connecting The aesthetic result of this solution is very links 10. satisfying but, in practice, the functioning The hood, when extended, is very elegant, ot the hood presents serious inconveniences, the links and the hoops which might spoil such as the difiiculty of gathering the hood, the line of the vehicle and interfere with particularly when wet, into the space prothe side: view of persons seated in the same 30 vided in the body for its accommodation, not being visible. hen the hood is colwhich space, of necessity, is of restricted dilapsed the frame-work rests. mainly in the mensions. recesses 11, in the side walls of the vehicle The present invention combines the adbody and the outline of the latter remains vantages of the two arrangements of collapsvisible.

as ible hoods indicated above and at the same A. leather or like bag 12 may be drawn time eliminates the inconveniences peculiar over the collapsed hood. to each. This result is obtained by forming It will be seen that the bottom of each rein the side walls of the vehicle body recesses cess 11 is approximately on a level with the in which the hood supporting framework top of the rear wall of the vehicle body.

i0 rests when the hood is collapsed, whilst the Having now particularly described and bulk of the cover is drawn back and lies beascertained the nature of my said invention hind the rear wall of the vehicle as at and in what manner the same is to be perpresent. formed, I declare that what I claim is:

The line of the vehicle is thus completely 1. In combination, a vehicle body having visible when the hood is collapsed; the cover recesses in the thickness of its side walls, being gathered together mainly behind the the bottom of said recesses being substanvehicle. ti'ally at the same level as the topof the The hood comprising the cover and suprear wall of said body, and a collapsible porting frame work is such that whilst the hood mounted in said recesses and whose latter is of a strength equal to, it not greater side members he therein when folded and Whose bows rest on said rear Wall, whereby the stream line of the body is maintained When the hood is folded.

2. A vehicle body having longitudinal recesses in the thickness of its side Walls, each recess having its maximum depth at its front end and its bottom extending in a substantially hor'izontal'plane and terminating at the rear end in the plane of the top of the rear Wall of the Vehicle body, and a collapsible hood mounted in the recesses so that the side members lie therein when folded and the top portions project behind the rear Wall of the car body.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name.

RINO COLOMBINO. 

